The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting public morals and decency:
(a) All houses, buildings or places where gambling devices, slot machines, punch board and other such contrivances of similar character involving any elements of chance as a consideration or any type of gambling, bookmaking, wagering or betting is carried on, and all gambling equipment, except where such gambling is permitted by applicable law;
(b) Any place in or upon which lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted, permitted, continued, or exists, or any place in or upon which lewd, indecent, lascivious or obscene films or plate negatives, film or plate positives, films designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition films, or glass slides either in negative or positive form designed for exhibition by projection on a screen, are photographed, manufactured, developed, screened, exhibited, or otherwise prepared or shown, and the personal property and contents used in conducting and maintaining any such place for any such purpose. This chapter shall not affect any newspaper, magazine, or other publication entered as second class matter by the post office department;
(c) Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place where beer or intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, or kept in violation of law and all property kept and used in maintaining the same, and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of beer or intoxicating liquor and beer or intoxicating liquor contained in the room, house, building, boat, structure, or place, or the operation of such a room, house, building, boat, structure, or place as described in this paragraph where the operation of that place substantially interferes with public decency, sobriety, peace, and good order. "Violation of law" includes, but is not limited to, sales to any person under the legal drinking age as prohibited in division (A) of Section 4301.22 or division (A) of Section 4301.69 of the Ohio Revised Code and any violation of Section 2913.46 or 2925.03 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 65-00. Passed 7-3-00.)
(Ord. 65-00. Passed 7-3-00.)